Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are the ultimate cellular insiders. They perform several critical jobs, such as ferrying genetic instructions from a living organism’s DNA to its protein-making machinery (a ...

A virtual cell modeling system, powered by AI, will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of diseases, argue the cofounders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. As the smallest living units, cells ...

Cancer is a disease that causes abnormal cells to reproduce and spread to other parts of the body, which can result in tumors or damage to the immune system that may become fatal. Healthy cells follow ...

Nature has designed some spectacular micromachines, such as the flagella that propel bacterial cells, or microbial injection systems that can be found on a variety of organisms. Researchers have now ...

Scrawled X’s and O’s dance across the whiteboard behind Hawa Racine Thiam. At first glance, they look similar to drawings from a football playbook. But Thiam is no football coach, and those doodles ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, nerve cells, egg cells and sperm to name a few. The division of labour among ...